The Irish standard., 1887-02-05
Senator ingalls, Dream

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Senator ingalls, Dream
A Washington despatch of a recent
date has the following:
In al. Interview Senator ingalls, de
ulared himself, with characteristic elsl~
phasis, in favor Of annexation With
Canada, and not only with Canada. bDt
the entire Central American states. lie
coined phrase to express his doctrine,
and it WAS "a continental republic"
The una,limity Of the assault upon him
by the English and Canadian papers
since his speech ON the fisheries resolu-
ton would seem to indicate that the
blows he struck were felt, and were a
good deaf more than q disturbance III
the air. That he struck {; popular cord
in this country is shown by the de!u2,s
of letters that set in upon him the day
after his speech WAS delivered, and still
continue to come in increasing ntlnl-~
bers. He has received 81 good many
from Canada--and they are all anony-
mous-vituperatiye, vindictive, and in
solent to the last degree. The letters
received from this country have come
from every state t1-at could send a mail
so far as Washington since the debate,
and are all COZ gr; 1ulatory, enthusiastic,
! aud s:,at<ij u. #f
"My attention has been cal]ad TO
them" fae replied. 1.-THE tone Of tflss
London journals il, "a further i]}ustra-
| tion OF the .e1nper Of England anG the
English people toward America and our
insti itutjons. They attempt to divert =
the issue from the gravity OF The sItua~
! ton to the insignihcance Of the acc;ser,
! The real question is, not whether Mr..
ingalls, is obscure, but whether his allie
cations are true OF false. No supereii-
ioas illusions to me or my state eau dis
| tract attention from the real principles
| in controversy. We have been SO suhnlis-
sive, so forbearing, in the past, that the
world is coming to believe us :, nation
of towards. There has been such a
TRANSMISSION OF the dry rot of anglo
mania Into our social system; such an
adoption OF the single eyegiass aud the
':aw," the jargon and the raiment Of
England; SO much faDdood)e aid whip
syllabub, ea-custard and nonsense,
about kindred blood, aud the land of
SHAKESPEARE and Milton, that there has
been a temporary alteration of the in
tel!ect and a suspension Of self-respect
4 re T.
who forget that England is 5he oDly
enemy we had on the face Of the earth.
II is time the American awoka to the
fact that the craftsmanship OF the nine.
teenth century requires the unijication
Of this continent under one homogen-
eous government from the frozen sea to
the inter-oceanic canal, wherever it be
built. That canal should be our south
ern boundary.
"My dream, and l believe the settled
conviction Of the American people, is
q continental republic. That is the
manifest destiny that is the Inevitable
tendency of the political forces Of the
American people. It is their only safe
ty. and instead Of wasting our power
in petty intrigues with savages for
naval station in the Pacific sea, a wiser
and more commanding policy would be
to establish relations Of international
friendship with our Canadian neigh
bors on the north and our Spanish
neighbors on the south, and not permit
the Vaccinations Of Great Britain To
foment disturbances that will defer
such alliance or render it impossible.''
Senator ingalls, was asked to give his
ideas on the continental republic little
more in detail. but he said he intended
TO say something on this subject il the
senate soon and did not want to spoil
his speech. y
The See of Waterford,
The first Bishop of Waterford was
Malchus, by birth of noble Irish fam
lily, and by profession a Benedictine